On 08/27/2012 05:45 AM, eryksun wrote: > Most programs expect their arguments to have been tokenized as the > shell would as a matter of convention. So, for example, if vlc gets > "-I" in argv[1] it expects that argv[2] will be a value such as > "dummy". A value of "-I dummy" in argv[1] in principle shouldn't work. > In practice vlc seems pretty flexible and accepts it both ways. Thanks for the explanation.
By the way, my call to vlc now works. Thanks for breaking up the parts of the argument into variables - it helped me understand greatly both what was happening on the command line and how to make code more readable. What worked was to remove the extra quotes from around the argument parts and placing them around the %s formatting inside 'sout'. I'm not certain why that made a difference.... (BTW, I had gotten the dst_file portion to work, but the dst_http kept failing. I finally used the debug switch vlc and 'less' to compare the outputs of the working Bash call and the non-working Python call.....well, it did finally jump out at me that the working call contained a 'mpjpeg' mux while the non-working call was misnamed a 'mjpeg' mux. <sigh>) Thanks for your help - I have a greater understanding of what's going on. When I'm 80, I might be able to claim guruship like you! ;) Ray _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
